NEWS FLASH! COMMOTION ERUPTS AFTER NESTLE PRESENTATION

FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2009 AT 8:30 am

"Nestle representative cowers in front of  a Swiss Film Crew at the Wells Chamber of Commerce EGGS & ISSUES presentation"

Contact for more info: Jamilla El-Shafei    jamillaelshafei@gmail.com

This morning members from SAVE OUR WATER attended a Wells Chamber of Commerce event at 7:00 am called EGGS & ISSUES. This is a monthly breakfast meeting of local business people when the Chamber invites a guest to speak about a pertinent issue.  Today's presenter was Mark DuBois, the resource manager from  the Nestle label Poland Springs. The tradition at the meeting is to have Q&A after the presentation.

Dubois gave his power point presentation and after his dog& pony show, he said that he would be happy to take questions "outside." Clearly, with two film crews present he did not want to have to answer any difficult questions. So I went up to him to ask a question  as the camera man followed, and he started moving away from me. Corey Hascall, his pr person (fyi she was my face book friend until I learned that she worked for Nestle's PR firm--very unethical), blocked the camera with her hands. She positioned herself between DuBois and me.

 Then when I got close to DuBois she physically shoved me! She is a big woman and it was quite a push back! It was caught of film by the Swiss Film crew who is in the country making a film about Nestle. However, I managed to follow DuBois out of the door and the film crew followed me. DuBois then walked very fast to his gas sucking, big truck. What a coward! He told me that he would be very happy to speak off camera. Maybe we should hold him to that and visit his office.

Then my former Face Book friend Corey Hascall came out of the room and I told her that it was very unethical for her to Face Book me without revealing that she worked for Nestle. She then ran out the door!

As an aside, I believe that she was the one who gave personal information about my politics, etc to the opposition in Wells who conducted a vile McCarthyist campaign against me, Save Our Water and proponents of the Rights-Based Ordinance.

Nestle has a corporate culture of  secrecy. No wonder, and they will stop at nothing  to make a buck, from killing labor union workers in the Philippines to child labor abuses in the cocoa fields to stealing our water resources in Maine, It is no wonder why they are afraid of a Q&A.

Save Our Water members  then gathered for the film crew with our banner to sing the Nestle jingle which was on the sign,
 N - E -S - T - L - E - S      Nestles takes our very best    WATER!